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United States Patent | 5,777,615 |
Barber ,   et al. | July 7, 1998 |
A pointer system provides multiple display pointers that can be created and identified by a computer user such that each pointer is associated with a particular application and location within an application. A user can recall respective pointers and pointer locations by selecting a pointer identifier. One or more of the pointers can be defined as anchored pointers, which are associated with one or more user actions. The user actions can comprise a variety of functions, including mouse button clicks. In this way, a user can define anchored pointers and carry out a string of user actions by selecting the identifying character of an anchored pointer.
Inventors: | Barber; Ronald Jason (San Jose, CA); Ford; Daniel Alexander (San Jose, CA); Selker; Edwin Joseph (Palo Alto, CA) |
Assignee: | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Appl. No.: | 846447 |
Filed: | May 1, 1997 |
Current U.S. Class: | 715/856 |
Intern'l Class: | G06F 003/00 |
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